Kolari Brings Magnetic Clip-in Filters to Blackmagic Full-Frame Cine Cameras
Kolari Vision, best known for its infrared and ultraviolet camera conversions and filters, announced that its popular magnetic clip-in filters are now available for Blackmagic’s full-frame cinema cameras, including the Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K and Blackmagic Pyxis 6K. [Read More]
Laowa Debuts Four Ultra-Wide Full-Frame Cinema VV Lenses
Venus Optics announced four new wide-angle Laowa cinema lenses designed for VistaVision cameras. [Read More]
SmallRig’s Cooling Fan Promises to Significantly Improve Canon R5 II Recording Duration
SmallRig released a new cooling fan for Canon EOS R5-series mirrorless cameras. The $60 cooling fan snaps onto the back of the Canon EOS R5 and EOS R5 II, delivering cool air to the back of the camera to improve video recording duration. [Read More]
Hide an AirTag on Your Sony Camera With the Alphagvrd Body Cap
Upgrade plain Sony camera body caps with a customizable Alphagvrd Creative Weapon Sensor Cap that hides an Apple AirTag. [Read More]
Simple Secrets for Stunning High-Key Bird Photos (VIDEO)
Bird photography is both fun and accessible because it’s a genre that anyone than pursue at a nearby park, wildlife refuge, or even in the comfort of their own backyard. Even newbies can get in on the action with dynamic results, as you’ll see in this quick tutorial from the popular Flying Parrot instructional YouTube channel. Today’s Australian instructor Sonia is a commercial photographer turned wildlife chaser who refers to herself as a “bird tourist.” She’s also a very adept educator whose how-to videos are designed to share creative techniques that quickly inspire confidence in nature shooters of all skill levels. This tutorial reveals several straightforward secrets for capturing stunning…
Magnum is Digitizing Its Color Photo Archive with the Fujifilm GFX 100 II
Magnum Photos is working closely with Fujifilm and MPP (Heritage and Photography Library of Paris / Médiathèque du Patrimoine et de la Photographie) to digitize Magnum’s massive color library archive in Paris. The collection contains approximately 650,000 color slides that have remained mostly untouched and unseen for over 20 years. [Read More]
Godox’s New Monolight for Photo and Video Promises Power and Portability
Godox, makers of professional lighting solutions, announced a new powerful, waterproof RGBWW monolight, the Knowled M1000R. It is designed primarily with videographers in mind, although it could also be useful for photographers. [Read More]
Embellish Landscape Photos with Perfect In-Camera Sunstars (VIDEO)
All outdoor photographers look for a creative edge that make their images stand out from the crowd, especially when shooting iconic sites that have been photographed time and time again. Today’s quick tutorial from the KPM YouTube channel demonstrates how to do exactly that by including a perfectly defined sunstar that adds drama and depth when framing up a shot. Perhaps this technique is unfamiliar, or maybe you’ve tried it in the past and your sunstars appeared weak and unimpressive. In either case, all that’s going to change in the next four minutes. Here’s how Instructor Madhaven summarizes this episode: “I break down the art of photographing sunstars—those radiant bursts of…
Canon Commits to Continuing In-House Sensor Development
Image sensor research and development is notoriously costly, which is why so many manufacturers have opted to work with an existing sensor fabrication company, like Sony Semiconductor, rather than develop their own in-house. Canon has been one of the few exceptions and, according to its executives, that will remain the case. [Read More]
OM System’s Strategy Might Box It Into No-Man’s Land
OM System isn’t willing to sacrifice the performance of its computational photography features in order to increase the resolution of its sensors. That strategy leverages one of the company’s competitive advantages, but it also very well makes it difficult for its cameras to appeal to any photographer. [Read More]
